RE: (*sigh) new gnome-libs problems.

["BASS, Ned" <nbass shl com>]

I also experienced this problem with gnome-libs 0.99.1 and 0.99.2.  It seems
to have been fixed in CVS, as I compiled from there several days ago and no
longer got the segfault during 'make install'.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Baulig [mailto:martin@home-of-linux.org]
> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 1999 3:11 PM
> To: Lewis Tanzos
> Subject: Re: (*sigh) new gnome-libs problems.
> 
> 
> Lewis Tanzos <lewis@tulgey.browser.net> writes:
> 
> > > R Pickett <emerson@hayseed.net> writes:
> > > > Well, after fighting through bad gettext installs and 
> incompatible
> > > > libpng's, I got gnome-libs-0.99.2 to compile, yay.
> > > >
> > > > But it won't install.
> > > > 
> > > > Specifically, gnome-gen-mimedb segfaults whenever it's run, so
> > > > 'make install' 
> > > > fails about here:
> > 
> > I've been having this problem for the last month or so.
> > 
> > The problem here is the line around line 297 in
> > gnome-libs/libgnome/gnome-magic.c that says:
> > 
> >   g_snprintf(newent.mimetype, sizeof(newent.mimetype), 
> "%s", curpos);
> > 
> > The problem is that, for some reason, g_snprintf doesn't use the
> > length argument, so it does the equivalent of sprintf and 
> overruns the
> > array.  newent.mimetype is only 48 characters, some of the 
> mime types
> > are longer.
> 
> Just looked at the code in glib/gutils.c - can't find any 
> mistake there,
> also it tried it with an oversized entry and it worked fine for me.
> 
> However, I do remember that it attempted to dereference a 
> NULL pointer when
> it dumped core last time for me - unfortunately I already 
> removed the core
> file and the binary that was causing it and I'm now unable to 
> reproduce it.
> 
> Martin
> 
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